Do you think legalizing marijuana will benefit or hurt the military?

Even if it was legalized what makes you think the military is going to say its ok for service members to use it. Won't happen, I don't see that happening and it is not something that should be addressed.

Sp4 Byron Skinner. This is a command challenge. Marijuana has de-facto been legal in most of the country for decades. The Military and its up to command to enforce the rules on base. Off base you follow the prevailing civilian law. If you are in California the local and state law enforcement hasn't enforce individual use of marijuana for decades. I haven't heard about any problems on any of the military bases. In 2014 the state even stopped itv annual seizing of mature plants in rural/back country growing grounds. This is an area where many progressives states are way ahead of the Federal government. Right now the major hindrance to Federal Legalization is the loss of a couple of million law enforcement jobs dedicated to the suppression to the cultivation and use of marijuana and the massive budget that come with them in salary and grants to local law enforcement to enforce Federal Law. As always, its about the money. The actual concerns for the use of marijuana by adults died over 30 years ago.

I don't know Boose at least isn't normally used during the work day and poor is so easy to use during he day so you could have guys stoned at the range and things like these

Legalization won't change the UCMJ.

Legalization won't make a difference. Legalization won't change the UCMJ....

It wouldn't matter because they are still prohibited from having it and smoking it

I'm sure after I am long retired it will be regulated like alcohol is wether we like it or not

Legalizing marijuana will be a net benefit to the US in general (including the military).

Decriminalization of drugs must be started. Prohibition of alcohol did not work, and the "War on Drugs" has been a much longer as well as a much more bitter and devastating failure.

Milton Friedman (Nobel Laureate supply side economist ["Voodoo Economics" per George H. W. Bush] told Nixon not to start the war on drugs - Friedman (regardless of what you think about supply side economics) understood very well the black market.

Nixon could not stand those pot smoking hippies (protesting Vietnam, etc) did not heed Friedman's advice. Nixon, however, did advocate more of a rehabilitative approach. The "War" got uglier and now:
1. US has 5% of the world's population
2. US has 25% of the world's PRISON population
3 Majority of US prison population is drug related!!!
At great expense we are creating career criminals (who is going to hire a "jailbird?"). Decriminalize, regulate, and tax drugs just the way alcohol is taxed (alcohol tax used to be the main income source for the government until looming Prohibition helped give birth to the income tax!). If a law is broken "under the influence" of drugs, there are laws to cover that.

Our "drug problem" is far greater after 40+ years of the "War on Drugs" than it ever was before the war started. You may think the "War" is the "right thing to do," but considering that it has created a far greater number and severity of problems than it has solved, surely it is not the "right thing to do!"

I don't know what the actual percentage is but I do know as a young E5 attending a wounded soldiers welcome home party from Walter reade the garage was pretty cloudy. Lost a lot of good soldiers over the years because they pissed hot for marijuana. I don't condone drug use but honestly most people don't get into car accidents or beat their spouses while on marijuana. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world

Until they come up with a breath or blood test to determine level of impairment, allowing it in the Military except for medical use is a bad idea. Still not sure how it will be determined who is stoned or just incompetent.